Tag: BANDWIDTH

Where can you find the fastest broadband Internet speeds on the whole planet? According to Ars Technica, the crown goes to Berkeley, California, which has the fastest average broadband Internet speed on Earth -- at 18.7Mbps. This West Coast college town beat out, according to Akamai Technologies' State of the Internet Report, other major urban hubs in both Asia and Europe. The U.S fared ...

AT&T seems to finally be coming around and admitting that, at least in areas like New York City and San Francisco, it has serious issues with reliability and coverage. We guess coming out at the bottom of the wireless pile in Consumer Reports' annual customer satisfaction survey has made the company realize how dire of a situation it's now in. So earlier in the week it gave us the 'Mark the ...

The Internet is a seemingly endless resource for our watching, listening, and chatting needs. Bandwidth, however, is not. Cisco Systems, the mobile networking company, released a report earlier this week suggesting that global Internet traffic is growing exponentially. Scientific American said that Cisco needed a newer term -- zettabyte, or one trillion gigabytes -- to measure both the amount of ...

An American think-tank, Nemertes Research, is warning that the Internet could be seriously lacking in capacity within a year, and that it could be little more than an "unreliable toy" by 2012, reports the Times Online. Over the last several years, demand for bandwidth has increased at a dramatic rate -- roughly 60-percent per year. Visitors to YouTube alone generate as much data traffic in a ...

No, folks -- this is no prank. Time Warner Cable really is throwing caution (and public opinion) to the wind and moving forward with its evil consumption-based internet billing. If you'll recall, we heard that the operator was trialing the method -- which imposes premium rates on big broadband users -- back in early 2008, but now it seems it's quietly hoping to roll it out into more major markets. ...

Every so often, we get wind of some new "breakthrough" from a few guys / gals in a lab that promises to simply revolutionize the Web. A team from the University of Sydney is the latest bunch to do so, claiming that a piece of scratched glass (or a Photonic Integrated Circuit, if we're being proper) could enable Internet speeds 60 times faster than "current Australian networks." Essentially, the ...